Environmentalists and the media have a special language. Toxic chemicals stream, spew, into the environment. The Hudson River, thanks to a lot of efforts is cleaner than hit has been in decades. See the article. Yet we are worried about toxic chemicals from runoff, sneaking in. And, oh yes, there are those evil PCB's.
Name a chemical that isn't toxic. Water? An overdose will kill you. Drink too much, stand in 20 feet of it, live in a flood zone and you could die. Exposure to water vapor (steam) creates burns. How about the solid form? How many people die from exposure to ice each year. Is water described as spewing from the sky? Nope. However, other chemicals spew or stream into the environment, particularly those the environmentalists decide they don't like.
Next time you see a news report of toxic chemicals spewing into the air, I bet the camera shows long, lingering shots of a plume of grey to white stuff coming off some rectangular thingies in the back ground. They want to very graphically give you the idea that toxic chemicals are spewing into the environment. They are right. Usually the shot is of a cooling tower and the toxic chemical, and main greenhouse gas, is that evil stuff, water.
New pollution in the Hudson. Caused by people. Solution: move the evil doers to somewhere else.
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